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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help in editing a file Post 302605109 by methyl on Tuesday 6th of March 2012 04:15:55 PM
Old 03-06-2012
Is this similar to vour previous large file?
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...ge-file-2.html
Similar questions to before:

Is it a properly formatted unix text file?
How do you normally edit similar (but smaller) files?
How big is the file?
What editing do you need to do?
What software created the file?
 

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DwtSTextGetEditable(3Dwt)												 DwtSTextGetEditable(3Dwt)

Name
       DwtSTextGetEditable - Obtains the current edit permission state indicating whether the user can edit the text in the simple text widget.

Syntax
       Boolean DwtSTextGetEditable(widget)
	    Widget widget;

Arguments
       widget	 Specifies the ID of the simple text widget whose edit permission state you want to obtain.

Description
       The  DwtSTextGetEditable function returns the current edit-permission-state, which indicates whether the user can edit the text in the sim-
       ple text widget.  If the function returns True, the user can edit the string text in the simple text widget.  If it returns False, the user
       cannot edit the text.

Return Values
       This function returns the current permission state concerning the editing of the text field in the widget.

See Also
       DwtSText(3Dwt),  DwtSTextGetString(3Dwt),  DwtSTextSetEditable(3Dwt), DwtSTextGetMaxLength(3Dwt), DwtSTextSetMaxLength(3Dwt), DwtS-
       TextSetSelection(3Dwt), DwtSTextClearSelection(3Dwt), DwtSTextGetSelection(3Dwt)
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit: C Language Binding
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit Intrinsics: C Language Binding

															 DwtSTextGetEditable(3Dwt)
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